Waterboys – Fisherman's Box 6CD Box Set

Waterboys – Fisherman's Box

’Fisherman's Box’ is a 6 CD box set containing live recordings, impromptu jams and instrumental pieces from The Waterboys over a two year period after their formation in 1983. Including the hits ’Strange Boat’, ‘We Will Not Be lovers’, ‘And a Bang on The Ear’, ‘You In The Sky’ and many more.

The Waterboys are a Scottish Folk Rock band formed in Edinburgh in 1983 by the Scottish musician Mike Scott. The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, with Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Spiddal, New York City and Findhorn serving as homes for the group. Mike Scott is the only constant band member. They have explored a number of different styles, but their music is mainly a mix of Celtic Folk music with Rock and Roll. They dissolved in 1993 when Scott departed to pursue a solo career.

Tracklist:
CD1 
Dublin, 23 January 1986
1. Stranger To Me
2. Girl Of The North Country
3. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
4. Fisherman’s Blues (piano version)
5. Fisherman’s Blues
6. Meet Me At The Station 
7. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight 
8. Born To Be Together 
9. The Wayward Wind
10. World Party (1st version)
11. World Party / A Golden Age
12. Sleek White Schooner
13. Drunken Head Ghost Of Rimbaud Blues
14. Sweet Thing 
15. Sweet Thing (conclusion)
16. Saints And Angels

CD2 
Dublin, March to September 1986
1. We Will Not Be Lovers
2. One Step Closer
3. My Beautiful Baby
4. She Could Have Had Me Step By Step
5. When The Ship Comes In
6. The Ladder
7. Will You Ever Be My Friend?
8. Too Close To Heaven (rolling piano)
9. Higherbound (prototype)
10. Happy Birthday BP Fallon
11. The Prettiest Girl In Church
12. You Don’t Have To Be In The Army To Fight In The War
13. Dee Jay Way
14. Lonesome And A Long Way From Home
15. Thistlethwaite’s Declaration
16. Strange Boat (first play)
17. Lost Highway
18. Higherbound Blues
19. Let Us Be Drinking And Kissing The Women
20. Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
21. Tenderfootin’
22. Too Close To Heaven
23. Space Out There, Trevor

CD3
Berkeley, California, 2-8 December 1986
1. Steve And Anto’s Overture
2. Ain’t Leavin’, I’m Gone
3. When Will We Be Married (1st version) 
4. Maggie
5. Love Is Letting Go
6. On My Way To Heaven (1st version) 
7. You In The Sky (1st version) 
8. The Secret Place Of The Most High
9. Too Hot For Cleanhead 
10. Wickham’s Folkrock
11. Blues For Your Baby
12. Lonesome Old Wind
13. If Jimi Was Here
14. Soon As I Get Home
15. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

CD4
Dublin, 20 Dec 1986 to 28 February 1987
1. Billy The Kid
2. Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down
3. Come Live With Me
4. I Miss The Road
5. Higher In Time (two pianos)
6. Too Hot For Cleanhead (fast version)
7. Higher In Time (Scottish)
8. Higherbound (3rd tune)
9. A Golden Age
10. You In The Sky 
11. I Will Meet You In Heaven Again
12. Nobody ‘Cept You
13. (He Hasn’t Been The Same Since) Jimmy Shand
14. Rattle My Bones And Shiver My Soul
15. The Scotsman’s Delight
16. Killing My Heart
17. Industrial Mr Brown
18. Custer’s Blues
19. Shall We Gather By The River?
20. Higher In Time Symphony

CD5 
Dublin, February to November 1987 
1. Higherbound (3rd version)
2. The Grief Of Pan
3. World Party
4. Working On A Building
5. If I Can’t Have You
6. Killing My Heart (2nd version)
7. Trunk Call
8. Headphone Mix Song
9. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
10. When Will We Be Married (2nd version) 
11. BP’s Bathtub Boogie
12. We Will Not Be Lovers (sax solo)
13. Heading Down The Highway
14. Strange Boat
15. Fisherman’s Blues (2nd version)
16. Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? (Bridgeman version)
17. On My Way To Heaven
18. Let Me Feel Holy Again
19. A Home In The Meadow
20. Strange Boat (3rd version)
21. The Stolen Child (prototype)

CD6 
Spiddal, 13 April to 2 June 1988
1. On My Way To Tara
2. Incident At Puck Fair
3. Twa Recruitin’ Sergeants
4. And A Bang On The Ear
5. Mr Customs Man
6. Strange Boat (acoustic)
7. Spring Comes To Spiddal
8. In Search Of A Rose (band)
9. The Stolen Child (piano demo)
10. When Will We Be Married
11. In Search Of A Rose (duo)
12. The Good Ship Sirius (set of jigs)
13. This Land Is Your Land
14. Jimmy Hickey’s Waltz
15. Live Aid And After
16. Carolan’s Welcome
17. When Ye Go Away
18. When Ye Go Away (Frankie’s fiddle)
19. Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?
20. The Stolen Child (vocal demo)
21. Dunford’s Fancy
22. The Stolen Child
23. The Pictish National Anthem (Comati)
24. Bo Diddley Was A Caveman
25. The Last Jam
26. Buckets Of Rain

Label: Chrysalis
Released: 2013